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   Format c: v:stupid /q, Jan 5th, 2006 @ 2:18am

   
   

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   maybe those human experts can go straighten out the pattent dunces.

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   Mousky, Jan 5th, 2006 @ 4:25am

   
   

   Google anyone?

   Talk to Google. I'm sure they would love to get their hands that information and I'm sure they would do it for free (plus a portion of any ad revenue).

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   Dave Tamburello, Jan 5th, 2006 @ 6:37am

   
   

   Archivist

   Let's hope the expertise of the human archivists is (if meagerly) captured in metadata, documentation, training materials and a solid apprenticeship for a technically savvy archivist. A collection of informative stories, those with a "moral" that performs a training function captured on video would help as well. An attempt at workflows diagrams would be a good idea. Until we can contract Kurzweil to perform a brain download, these efforts would be due dilligence for capturing intellectual capital.

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   Victoria G Brown, Jan 5th, 2006 @ 7:40am

   
   

   Re: Archivist

   I had the same response after I had read the Article mentioned in Wired. In fact I had contacted the NARA via their page in support of the archivist mentioned therein. I may never visit the National Archives but I felt as though accessing living history and perhaps interacting in some small way has a bigger impact than a static search for information.

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   Tyshaun, Jan 5th, 2006 @ 9:35am

   
   

   Re: Archivist

   Sometime there truly is no replacement for human interaction, especially of a learned individual on subject matter research. You can do as many search strings into google/yahoo/whoever as you want but I still think being able to ask a person is far superior because they can "improvise" if you will and provide relevant/supplemental information that a simple text search may not do.
   
   I hope in our mad dash to digitize everything we don't eliminate human interaction.

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   Lee Stout, Jan 5th, 2006 @ 10:03am

   
   

   digitizing the National Archives?

   Mike says, they haven't quite figured out how to digitize the National Archives yet, referring to the Electronic Records Archives project. Unfortunately, Mike misunderstands the project. The ERA is the archives of the future, that is it will take in all the email, webpages, databases, digital photos, and other electronic files now in federal agencies that WILL be coming to the National Archives in the future. None of that will be "digitized," its already digital.
   The substanial amount of electronic records now in the National Archives from the last 30 years will be added to the ERA for preservation and reference purposes.
   Now if they were going to digitize the 4 billion pieces of paper now in the National Archives, that would add just a tad more cost -- try at least $400 million additional. No one is suggesting that be done, and that's why the expertise of the archives staff in relation to those 4 billion pieces of paper is so important.
   Lee Stout
   An archivist at Penn State and a member of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, but speaking for himself.

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   David, Jan 5th, 2006 @ 11:19am

   
   

   Its not that challenging

   I work for a software development company called Cherry LAN Systems, Inc. located in Traverse City, MI. We specialize in file management and archiving, and not just documents we also do video files, audio files and much much more. Our system could handle the task "with its eyes closed"; it’s just a matter of how much the government will spend at this point. If anyone (Mike) knows how I can contact whom ever is in charge of digitalizing the national archive it would be greatly appreciated.

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